For years, scientists believed the “giant impact” that formed the Moon melted and reshaped the entire young Earth, erasing its original composition. The new MIT findings challenge that view.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there's a Monster Mash and you can meet the “Ghosts of ...

"They’re iconic features." Scientists issue warning that ancient US feature could completely vanish: 'We'll be the first to ...

Only twelve examples of the larva convivialis are known, with the 2.6 inch figurine now housed at Getty Villa in Los Angeles.

Researchers report Cretaceous insects trapped in amber from Ecuador’s Napo region, revealing a 112-million-year-old humid ...

Poisoning by lead is usually thought of as a disease of relatively modern civilisations. Yet in a paper just published in ...

Lead poisoning isn't just a modern phenomenon: fossil teeth show signs that it affected ancient hominids, and Homo sapiens ...

The mummy now known as the Zimapán man was found to have a diverse microbiome that reveals more about what one ancient ...

Volcanic ash deposits above and below the bones at Casal Lumbroso date the carcass to around 404,000 years ago, during a warm Middle Pleistocene phase.

The Islamic Golden Age thrived as Greek thought, preserved by the Byzantines and rendered into Arabic, powered Baghdad’s ...

Insects have long pollinated plants, but evidence of ancient pairing is rare. Fossils now show bees and linden trees goes back 24 million years.

Our bond with cats – which has seen them go from hunter to house pet – may be more diverse than with any other animal. And ...